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                       <h2>Our Vision</h2>

                        <p>We must reinstate the voice of the reasonable citizens in our Republic. Important issues are drowned out by the media echo chamber and distorted by the government. We must cooperatively work together to develop policies that work, keep a watchful eye on unethical government officials and corporations, and organize to produce positive change for the future of our country.

                        <p><h3><a href="/register.html">Join the Discussion and Make a Difference.</a></h3></p>

                        <h3> Sounds great, but how? </h3>

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                            <li><b> Discuss, Debate, and Decide:</b> OpenAssembly features a forum where you can discuss issues that are of interest to you, deliberate over the pros and cons of those issues, and vote on what's important to you. Earn badges and reputation as a master of political argumentation or a creative problem solver. </li>

                            <li><b>Discovery:</b> Our adaptive platform learns your political preferences to improve your experience. The adaptive platform
will recommend new issues that you would be interested in, help you find interesting people to connect with, and allow for detailed analysis of the opinions in the community.</li>

                            <li><b> Organize:</b> Join coalitions of citizens that focus on issues you are most passionate about. Attend political events, meetings, or operations with other members to influence the real world. Photos and reputation reports confirm your activism and allow others to trust you, because only through trust can we ensure cooperation! </li>

                            <li><b> Trusted and Secure:</b> OpenAssembly features state-of-the-art reputation systems and trust networks. These systems prevent malicious actors from distorting the results of voting. Permissions layers protect trusted users when political strategy cannot be public.</li>


                            <li><b> Open and Free:</b> OpenAssembly is open source and will always be free. We are not here to harvest your political information for advertisers. OpenAssembly operates on a donation model.</li>

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<p> We would appreciate support from developers, web designers or graphic designers. OpenAssembly is based on <a href="http://pirate-politics.org">pirate-politics</a>. The site runs on <a href="http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/projects/django-nonrel">Django-nonrel</a> and Google App Engine.




             {% comment %}          <p> OpenAssembly is a problem/solution website built for user-driven political discussion. The objective of this discussion is the development of non-partisan, well cited, and innovative ideas that improve our democracy, government, and society. OpenAssembly is an alpha, meaning that it is still in it's infancy, and in the future will host new features such as an event system, support for issue/geographical subgroups, electioneering systems, and a intelligent online representative for each user. </p>

<p>The intelligent representative is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that will bring interesting new discussions to your attention, allow you to form dynamic coalitions with other users, aid in your evaluation of other users, engage in proxy voting if authorized, and much more. This intelligent representative first learns your preferences based on your activity on OpenAssembly. Once it has learned those preferences the representative will ensure your opinion is considered, even if you are not online. The intelligent representatives will work together to bridge the gaps between communities and allow for the formation of dynamic voting blocs. They will also allow users to compare their own political interests with others like never before. Perhaps some will even discover we are not so different after all.</p>

<p> The current phase of OpenAssembly is highly important as the content generated by users now will be used to aid research and development of this intelligent representative. Those that take part in the discussion at this stage can take an active role in the development of these features if desired and all users who participate in OpenAssembly: Alpha will receive a special badge showing their support at such an early stage of development.</p>

   <p><h3><a href="/register.html">Join the Discussion</a></h3></p>

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